07-05-2012
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Originally Posted by
alister
My post isn't intended to suggest that bash (or dash or bourne sh) violate the standard -- I'm aware that POSIX allows a shell to execute each component of a pipeline in either the current environment or a subshell (ksh is compliant in this respect); the post is merely a response to methyl's rumination on the popularity of the idiom, identifying one popular resource which promotes it.
You weren't that wordy about it at the time; you simply said your first impulse was to "blame GNU bash". That's a bit of a sore point -- BASH, as a shell many new users start with, has a low value in some admin's eyes -- the habit of new users calling all shell scripting "bash scripts" doesn't help -- and seems to get blamed for everything from their own bugs to poor weather as a result. Even though it's just doing what a Bourne shell does. Blame
him if you must.
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In my opinion, the ksh approach makes life a little easier.
Perhaps, but it's not something that can really be changed now. Bourne is what it is, and changing the ordering would change what happens in a lot of scripts because it cuts both ways -- suddenly scripts could be setting variables in the main shell they never did before...
I bet BASH'll add it as one of it's many fiddly setopt options someday.
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